Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez has his doubters after his failed drugs test earlier this year, but the rematch with Gennady Golovkin is less than two weeks away now and the Mexican appears to be in peak condition.
‘GGG’ felt he was denied a clear victory in the first fight after the judges returned a verdict of a draw.
And that controversy has only heightened the anticipation for the rematch in Las Vegas on September 15.
‘Canelo’ took to Instagram to show off his physique and the 28-year-old appears to be on track to comfortably make the middleweight limit of 160 lbs without requiring significant strain to his body in the final days.
"12 days left," Canelo wrote alongside a video of himself, drenched in sweat, performing a set of bicep curls with elastic resistance bands.
Team GGG appear to be riled by Canelo’s promoter Oscar De La Hoya suggesting they did not want the national anthems of Kazakhstan, Mexico and the United States to be sung at the event. But Golovkin’s promoter, Tom Loeffler, has vehemently denied this and demanded an apology.
"I have no idea what Oscar is talking about but it is not true," Loeffler said. "The truth is Team Golovkin had requested that the national anthems of Kazakhstan, Mexico and the United States be sung before the pay-per-view telecast began so that we could proceed with the fights seamlessly and uninterrupted.
“HBO supported this position and has always preferred that the anthems take place before the HBO Pay-Per-View telecast begins.
"To suggest that Gennady is unpatriotic and has no respect for the anthems of his Kazakhstan, Mexico or the US, where Gennady resides in southern California, is patently false. Oscar and Canelo owe Gennady yet another apology.
“This is just another example of why Gennady never believes anything from Canelo’s side."
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